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Boat Museum Collection

Date

1970-2000

Reference code

CRT/BMT

Creator

Boat Museum Trustees

Provenance

Archive material collected to support the Boat Museum exhibitions from inception of the museum until take over by The Waterways Trust in 2000. This material remained after the Kingfisher Audit which was carried out in 2009

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Dr Daphne Rosswell Photographic Collection
Copy Drawing of Proposed Chesterfield Canal Narrowboat 'Dawn'
Denys Hutchings Papers
Minutes of the Droitwich Canals Trust Ltd
Pocket book showing River towages on River Weaver from Runcorn to Dukes Dock and beyond
Collection of colour slide transparencies showing leisure use of the waterways
Department of the Environment. The Waterways of the British Waterways Board. A Study of Operating and Maintenance Costs
Publication 'Acton Swing-Bridge over the River Weaver'
Description, navigation notes and plan map showing Welland and Nene River
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways. Map of the Canals and Navigable Rivers of Ireland
Docks and Inland Waterways Executive Map Showing Inland Waterways of England and Wales
Stanford's Map of the River Thames from Richmond to Lechlade
Stanford's Inland Cruising Map of England for Larger Craft
Shell Service Waterway Map for Motor Boats-Waterways of Great Britain and Norfolk Broads
Runcorn Locks Feasibility Study (Halton Borough Council)
Colour transparencies showing steam dredger 'Perseverance' in steam while working and owned by the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society
Report "Canal Yachting as a Business" by Kyrle W Willans, consulting Mechanical Engineer
British Transport Commission Apprenticeship Agreements
Agreement relating to through tolls between Anderton Boat Lift and Manchester Ship Canal, South Staffs and connecting canals
Cruising Ephemera
Journal of the chester Archaeological Society article 'Cheshire River Navigations with Special Reference to the river Dee by H Robinson
Booklet -Erewash Canal Rally, Gallows Inn, Ilkeston
Fredk.J Abbott Ltd. Revised Rules and Rates of Payment for employees
Feasibility study for restoration of the Huddersfield Canal
Documents and publications relating to employment of dock workers at various UK ports
Colour prints showing warehouse and gantry at Beverley Beck, East Yorkshire 1997
Centenary celebration Colour postcards showing scenes and craft on the Manchester Ship Canal
Specification book and notes for Twin screw tug steamer 'Ralph Brocklebank', subsequently 'Daniel Adamson'
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Time book and engineers papers from Apperley Bridge and Skipton
Aire and Calder Navigation, Goole. Images of containers and cargoes
Documents, publications and scrapbooks relating to employment of dock workers
Documents concerning the Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Company and the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation
Photographic prints showing freight transport and craft on the Aire and Calder Navigation
South Yorkshire and Aire and Calder booklets and information card
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Handbook and Bye Laws
Trent Navigation and Nottingham & Grantham Canals. District Engineer's folded map and British Transport information booklet
British Transport Commission British Waterways North Western Division booklet on Weston Point Docks
Miscellaneous booklets and map relating to carrying operations on British waterways
Sketch diagrams of portions of the Aire & Calder Navigation
General Arrangement of 150 tons Motor Barge
Sketch plans of Proposed Museum at Preston Brook, Bridgewater Canal
Sketch plans of Proposed Museum at Anderton Lift, Trent & Mersey Canal
Information leaflet and photographic print of wherry yacht 'Olive'
Bundle of papers regarding disputed responsibility for clearing drain at Willymore, Cheshire (Marbury Brook)
Plan of the Calder & Hebble Navigation showing lock sizes
Photographic prints of Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth Tunnel
Department of Trade investigation into the Birmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company Ltd
Pleasure boating charts of the River Ouse and River Ure
Lithograph plans of course of Huddersfield Broad Canal
Sketch plans and appeal posters for proposed Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port
Diagram of Lister Blackstone Marine Ltd engine
Aire & Calder New Junction Canal. Drawings of swingbridges, locks and flood arches
Reports on 'Remainder' canals for British Transport Commission
Collection of black and white and colour negatives showing mainly Anderton Lift, waterways vessels and environs
Collection of black and white photographic prints collected by Geoff Wheat
Framed photograph of vessel 'Lord Stalbridge'
Permits for Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd boats passing along the Shropshire Union canal from Ellesmere Port to Autherley
Bundle of documents and publications relating to the Aire & Calder Navigation
Drawing of Boiler for SS Regulator, Weston Point Towing Co.
Colour transparencies of Stanley ferry area showing Tom Puddings and Goole bridge
Map of Weston Point to Sutton
Map of Weston Point to Sutton
OS map showing ownership of Estates Northwich - bucklow Union
Plan of Island above Vale Royal
Plan of Vale Royal Locks and ajoining land
Plan of Vale Royal Old River Water Line
Plan showing land required at Vale Royal Locks
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Deviation Plan
London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Trent and Mersey Navigation. Specifications and tenders for ice boats and other maintenance craft
Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, North Western Division.Specifications and blueprint for craft
E W Fidler Photograph Collection
Map of land ownership associated with the building of Knighton Reservoir, Shropshire Union Canal
Papers relating to Thomas Humphries,'Oxford Tommy', Boatman working British Waterways Lime Juice Boats from Brentford to Boxmore
Photographic print of canal scene at Greenberfield on Leeds & Liverpool Canal, mounted on card
Photographic print of Taylor's Boat Yard at Chester showing flyboat 'Symbol'
Printed colourwashed map of the Great Levels of the Fens
An Archaeological Survey and Evaluation on the Stoke Bruerne to Blisworth Plateway, Northamptonshire
Collection of Slide Transparencies showing 16 different canals
River Weaver Navigation Society Milepost and Boundary Marker Report
Grand Junction Canal Carrying Department. Notebook sheets and memos
Pocklington Canal document. Proposed Transfer from Railway Executive to Docks and Inland Waterways Executive
Birmingham Canal. Two receipts relating to land purchased from Mr Richard Price.
Two archaeological evaluation reports relating to watching briefs at Stanlow Island, Ellesmere Port, cheshire and land adjacent to Bridgewater House, Percival Lane, Runcorn
Bundle of articles on waterways life extracted from various magazines
Bundle of waterways reports on regeneration proposals and brochures
Aire & Calder Navigation. Collection of glass plate negatives showing working vessels
Image of boatman and horse, details unknown
D.Cotton Collection of images
Collection of postcards showing Waterways images
Images around the Museum at Ellesmere Port docks
Digital image of plan of hydraulic canal lift at Anderton
Image of crew aboard the Mersey flat 'Ruth Bate'
Northern Anglers' Association sketch map of Lancaster Canal fishery
Barton Aqueduct, Cheshire. Many aspects
London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. Shropshire Union Section. Bundle of toll traffic declaration notes 1940's
Fellows Morton and Clayton boat permits for Shropshire Union canal and Trent & Mersey canal
Results of Survey of derelict boats and samples taken at Boothstown Basin, Manchester
Photographic image of Isabella Salt (boatwoman)
Boat permit No. 1661 for 'Chiltern' to use the Anderton Boat Lift in Centenary Year
Drawing of proposed new gates for the Graving Dock at Chester
Booklet 'Port of Manchester' with diagramatic maps
Correspondence relating to proposed harbour revision order at Walton Lock etc, Warrington
Ellesmere Port and Neston Bicentenary Festival Souvenir Brochure - Opening of the Wirral Canal
Russian Acadamy of Sciences' Institute, International Historical-Geographical Expedition
Copy photographic print of John Sandbach and Mary Challinor outside Seaman's Mission, Primrose Hill, Ellesmere Port
Colour photographs of bridges 108-122 along the Chester canal
Picture postcards showing River Mersey transporter bridge,Victoria Gardens and old and new bridges at Widnes
Permit for consignment of flour from F A Frosts Ltd to Oswestry Grain Shed
Image of cantilever bridge at Wheldrake on the River Derwent (Yorkshire)
Leeds & Liverpool Canal, British Transport Commision. Correspondence relating to various incidents involving boats, dredging and canal delays
Various Nothern Waterways. Bundle of unrelated reports and research documents
Colour print photographs showing boats in the museum collections and winching new boiler for pump house at Ellesmere Port docks
Colour print photograph showing Rose Skinner aboard narrowboat 'Friendship' with 2 passengers
Photographs and personal documents relating to William & Eliza Davies, boatman and wife working Fellows Morton & Clayton boats
Images of narrowboat 'Swift', Midlands Southwest Boats (previously 'Cowburn & Cowper' boat)
Images of Nicholas family at Ellesmere Port
Photographic negatives of 250 ton floating crane(Manchester Ship Canal Company)
Image showing narrowboat 'Kestrel' (Fellows Morton and Clayton) and 'Hyperion' at boatyard
Postcard showing scene on Manchester Ship Canal
Newspaper supplement 'Views of the Manchester Ship Canal' (No.2)
Collection of Ephemera and research notes on tugs and craft on Bridgewater and Manchester Ship Canal.
Collection of photographs and postcards compiled Anthony Burnip
Collection of photographs found around National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port (Boat Museum) site
General Arrangement and side elevation drawings of Norfolk Wherry 'Albion'
Image of Mersey Mills and Howley Weir with Manchester Ship Canal personnel
Collection of Miscellaneous Maps, Plans and Drawings
Images of CFB1 and CFB3 at Yarwoods Boatyard, Northwich
Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to the Manchester Ship Canal
Framed newspaper articles on George Pye, employee Manchester Ship Canal
Coloured printed map showing City of York and the district of Ainsty
Black and white image of the 'New Dock' at Ellesmere Port, Manchester Ship Canal
Colour photographic image of concrete works and locks at Fiddlers Ferry.
Collection of photographic prints showing construction of Manchester Ship Canal and later images of ships in dock at Salford
LNER Act 1937 Abandonment of Navigation on the Nottingham Canal and associated Parliamentary Minutes
Department of Transport Local Government Regions Consultation Document
West Sussex Geographer Issue 8
Images of the Runcorn Transporter Bridge, River Mersey
Image of Merseyton Road, Ellesmere Port
Contact prints showing scenes at Norbury Junction, Shropshire Union Canal
Tony Willcox -Collection of black and white prints showing Stourport-on-Severn area and one of 'Kingfisher' on Regent's Canal
Frank Steele-Collection of photographs showing journey of 'Basuto' from Canning Dock, Liverpool to Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Images of Leeds & Liverpool Canal around Litherland
Correspondence between Riverside Lechlade Ltd, Boat Builders/Hirers and Mr P Ackroyd
Collection of three colour postcards of Tyrley Locks and locks at Long Itchington
Birmingham Canal Navigation. Photographic prints showing ice breaking and boats submerged in snow
Drawing of typical Lock System
British Waterways Transport draft copy of booklet 'A Memento of Service with British Waterways'
Colour images of the excavation of the patent slipway at Ellesmere Port docks
Black and white contact prints and negatives of the excavation and regrading of the patent slipway at Ellesmere Port docks
Colour prints of 'Daniel Adamson', 'Kerne'(?) and concrete barge in Lower Basin and Victoria Arm
Black and white photographic prints with negatives showing development of Lower Basin area and Museum northern boundary at Ellesmere Port docks
Black and white photographic contact prints with negatives showing excavation of Lower Slipway area at Ellesmere Port Docks and later infilling
Black and white photographic contact prints with negatives and slide transparencies showing Lower Slipway uncovered and course to the ship canal
Bundle of negatives and colour prints showing Nickersons Tanker Depot Site at Ellesmere Port, also other buildings around the dock site including the mortuary
Contact prints and negatives showing excavation of patent slipway at Ellesmere Port and subsequent landscaping
Slide transparencies showing patent slipway excavation and recovery of turntable. Also buildings around dock site at Ellesmere Port
Framed photograph of opening of Porter's Row at The Boat Museum showing Mr S Offley and wife
Miscellaneous boat drawings and specification list
Photographic images of various British Waterways maintenance projects on the Lancaster and Leeds and Liverpool canals
Ray Woodland Collection
The Kennet and Avon Canal.Re-development Scheme
Certificate of British Registry,MSC "Pelican"
EP - Ellemere Port - Boat Museum Development
EP Docks Area Pre museum development
Collection relating to leisure boat 'Nippy', last boat to use the Ashton Canal
Rochdale Canal Company Records

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